Dinner-bucket.



PATENTED JULY 30, 1907. J. J. BURNS,

DINNER BUCKET. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 1,1906.

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J. J. BURNS.

DINNER BUCKET.

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JAMES J. BURNS, OF CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND.

DINNER-BUCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed September 1, 1906. $erial No. 332,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J. BURNs, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Cumberland, in the county of Allegany and State ofMaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDinnor-Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in dinner buckets intended especially forworking men and others who may desire to take dinner with them, and forheating the different articles, and the invention consists in certainnovel constructions and combinations of parts as will be hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of my dinner bucket withthe lid closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the lid open and parts ofthe body or bucket broken away in section to illustrate the devicescontained within the bucket. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view partlybroken away in section of the boiler with the dishes therein. Fig. 4 isa detail sectional view illustrating the construction of one of thedishes. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section of the bucket on aboutline 55 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the base pan.Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of one of the liquid containers, andFig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the lamp and the folding standtherefor.

I11 carrying out my invention I employ a bucket or body A, a base pan B,liquid containers 0, a boiler D and dishes E fitted thereto, the wholebeing adapted to be heated by a lamp F which may be applied as shown inFig. 5. In practice I prefer to make the bucket or body and the partscontainedtherein, except the base box 13 and its lid and the lamp F, ofenameled ware, usually white, as will be understood from Fig. 4 of thedrawing. The bucket or body A and the bread box and its lid may ifdesired be made of suitable tin or other sheet metal as may be desired.

The base box 13 may be utilized to hold bread or the like and isprovided with a removable lid B upon which at its ends I mount thestands B which project upwardly and form supports for the liquidcontainers 0 as shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawing. These upwardlyprojecting stands B are spaced apart and afford an intermediate'spacefor the lamp F, and in these spaces at the center of the lid B I preferto provide the upwardly projecting curved plates 13 forming a lampholder and within which the lamp F is fitted, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5.The stands B are shown as bails secured at their ends to the lid and mayalso be utilized as handles for the lid. The body A may be perforated ata opposite the space above the base pan B and suitable screened openingsA and A may be provided at the rear and front side of the body to affordventilation as may be desired.

The liquid containers C rest upon the stands B on opposite sides of thelamp and are provided with discharge openings and with closures Otherefor, as will be understood from Figs. 2, 5 and 7 of the drawing.These liquid containers form a support for the boiler D which rests atits ends upon said containers and extends over the lamp space so it willbe heated by the lamp as will be understood from Figs. 2 and 5. Thisboiler D has its top D provided with suitable openings D surrounded bythe upwardly projecting flanges D and the dishes E fit within saidopenings, project downwardly within the boiler D, and are provided withrim flanges E which overlie the flanges D of the boiler and formclosejoints therewith, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5 of the drawings. I prefer tosubdivide the boiler by means of partitions D having at their lower endsopenings D com municating with the different sections of the boiler,this being useful in preventing all the water in the boiler from passingtoo rapidly to one end thereof, when the bucket is tilted slightly incarrying the same.

The boiler D is provided at its ends with handles d by which it may becarried or moved from place to place.

The bucket lid (1 is hinged at one edge, provided with suitablefastenings at its other edge, is vented at a and has on its under side aloop a in which the folding lamp stand G as shown in Figs. 2 and 8 maybe placed when the stand is folded. This stand may be useful in holdingthe lamp for heating any desired article and can be conveniently carriedwhen not in use, as shown in Fig. 2.

By the construction of the pan with the stands B and the liquidcontainers mounted thereon, the liquid containers form a support for theboiler and also constitute the upper walls of the draft space H betweensaid containers and the top of the bucket, as best shown in Figs. 2 and5.

The pan B may be utilized to contain bread and the like, soup, hotcoffee or other articles may be placed within the containers 0, whilethe dishes E may be utilized to receive meats and vegetables, pudding orother articles, as may be desired.

The improved dinner bucket will be found useful by hotels andrestaurants for sending out hot dinners, as well as for use by workingmen, as before explained.

I claim:

1. A dinner bucket substantially as herein described comprising a body,a base box in the said body, a lid for said box provided at its centerwith a lamp holder and at its ends with upwardly projecting standsforming supports for liquid containers or cans, cans supported on saidstands and having suitable discharge openings and closures therefor, aboiler fitting in the body and supported at its ends on the liquidcontainers and extending over the lamp holder and provided with a topplate or cover, and with openings therein, dishes fitting in saidopenings, partitions within the boiler and having openings through whichwater may circulate, and a lamp substan tially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. The combination of the body, a box fitting therein and having its lidprovided with upwardly projecting stands spaced apart to afford anintermediate space for a heater, liquid containers on said stands onopposite sides of the heater space, a heater and a boiler mounted on theliquid containers and extending over the heater, substantially as setforth.

The combination in a dinner bucket with the body and liquid containersor cans, of stands spaced apart affording an intermediate heater spaceand supporting the said liquid containers on opposite sides thereof andalIording a draft space below the said containers and a heater,substantially as set forth. V

4.. The combination with the bucket or body and stands therein formingelevated supports for liquid containers, of liquid containers on saidsupports and spaced apart form ing' a heater space, a boiler mounted onsaid containers andextending over the heater space and a heater,substantially as set forth.

5. In a dinner bucket the combination with the body and the boilertherein and having openings, of dishes fitted therein and also providedwith partitions subdividing the boiler space and having openings for therestricted circulation of water in the boiler, and supports for the saidboiler whereby it may be secured above the heater space and a heater,substantially as set forth.

6. The combination of the bucket or body, the base box therein andhaving a lid provided with a central lamp holder and on opposite sidesthereof With upright stands, cans mounted on said stands and spacedapart, the boiler above the cans and extending over the space betweenthe same and a heater, substantially as set forth.

7. A dinner bucket comprising a body, a boiler therein having openingsand dishes fitting therein, supports in the body for the said boiler andspaced apart forming a heater Space, and a heater, substantially as setforth.

8. The combination of the body, the base box fitting therein and havinga lid provided at its ends with upright stands, cans mounted on the saidstands and forming with the box lid a draft space, the body being ventedopposite the said draft space and a heater, substantially as set forth.

JAMES J. BURNS.

Witnesses C. H. BRANDLER, W. .T. McCAn'rY.

